Harry Nelis
 
Harry enjoys investing in early and late-stage internet and software companies. He is particularly interested in consumer services, online games and SaaS software, and is responsible for Accel’s investments in, among others, Check24, an online price comparison service for consumer financial products, based in Germany; Gameforge, a developer and publisher of MMOGs, based in Germany; Kayak, an online search service for consumer travel, based in the US; and KDS, a provider of online business travel and expense management services, based in France.

Before joining Accel, Harry was at Perry Capital, a $10bn hedge fund, where he invested in public communications, media and technology companies, and at Goldman Sachs, where he advised such businesses on corporate finance and M&A transactions.

Earlier, Harry spent a decade in Silicon Valley. He was the founder of E-motion, a venture-backed software company, and started his career at Hewlett-Packard, where he held various engineering positions.

Harry holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.


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